Ludicidal Tendencies

The Night Journey got a really nice nod from Warren Spector on his blog about Siggraph. From the entry: "... check out the Night Journey project and then tell me you can just go back to making shoot-em-ups and save-the-princess games… The look, the pacing, the tone, the seriousness of the project reminded me how much untapped potential videogames have ..."

Thanks Warren! Sometimes it is hard to know whether what we are trying to do here in our little cubbyhole of experimentation will be appreciated. Your words mean so much to us! More here.

Also mentioned in the post was Glenn Entis' presentation about his pre-production workshop -- of which I am a huge fan. Glenn recently put together a great sidebar on this workshop for the next edition of Game Design Workshop. Warren mentions the "mind mapping" exercise which figures prominently in the new edition!